Resent News

Resent News

Yesterday I finally beat Metal Gear Solid 3. What a great game! I'm now starting through on the extreme level trying not to kill anyone including the bosses and without specials such as healing channels. I got a banana suit from the monkeys vs. snake challenges and it is so funny looking. Looking like a 6‚??0‚?? piece of fruit makes all your food taste good though so it is a valuable camo. Now that MGS3 has ended I decided to play Star Ocean and give Xenosaga II another try. Both are good games but are very long and get tiresome. Xenosaga's citizen missions are so boring and seem unnecessary as they don't add anything to the storyline. You do unfortunately have to complete them though if you want all the abilities they unlock. The only thing I would like to change in Star Ocean so far is the rate in which Fayt runs. The maps are crowded and he runs at an ungodly speed. If I could slow that down a bit it would be perfect. I admit that Star Ocean is one of the more advanced RPG's that I have played. It has many different areas to play with from item creation and modification to hiring inventors and selling things you create. The 300 battle trophies that I need should keep me playing this 2 disk game till almost 2006. Let‚??s see what else....I think my next big purchase will be the Logitech Race Wheel for GT4. I'm excited about the extra dimension the new feel of the wheel will provide to the game experience. This is my first game specific peripheral purchase and it took me awhile to tell myself that it wasn't a complete waste of cash. Time will tell though. I traded in about seven games to pick up the Splinter Cell but I'm not sure when I'll get to playing it. I don't like to spread myself to thin so I only play three games at a time. Beside the two games I mentioned above I'm also playing Madden 2005. I really never stop playing this game. Now I'm playing without creating any players on All Madden difficulty will all penalties almost maxed out and computer AI at max for the opposing team. It is hard no question about it. The first preseason game I played I was almost penalized more yards then I gained. To compensate for this I pushed up the awareness of the players I'm not controlling a little. Now I'm down to 40-50 yards per game in penalties which is pretty good. It seems the other team rarely makes any penalties unless they are the worst team in the league. Not so realistic in this area something EA could work on. I noticed veteran players make the same amount of mistakes that rookies do. This is another thing that could be fixed. It seems to me veteran pro bowl players are not going to line up in the neutral zone or cause as many false starts as a younger player with less awareness. This is especially true on the O-line. My third best player is my center (three consecutive pro bowls and his awareness is in the 90's) but he causes false starts more than another other player. If anyone should know the snap count it should be him. Crazy! That is all for now.